Posted on 12/03/2022 1:24:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
In his round X-ray specs and solar-system button-up, Garrett T. Capps looks like he’s just emerged from the farthest reaches of outer space. The San Antonio musician sounds like it, too. Since forming his band NASA Country in 2017, Capps has been working to introduce an unconventional new sound into country music, one that mixes the electronic, experimental hum of Kraftwerk with the cosmic hippie twang of Doug Sahm. Capps calls it “Kraut-country.”
Perhaps shockingly, it works. Capps’ new album, People Are Beautiful, is an urgent, inventive reimagining of Texas music. He sings with a traditional country inflection about topics like spiritual visitations and social unrest. Fat, hollow-bodied guitar chords butt up against manipulated percussion. A member of NASA Country plays modular synthesizer, turning knobs and fiddling with patch cables to create one-of-a-kind tonal effects. Capps sees it as a progressive alternative to the safe and polished sounds coming out of Nashville, or even out of some parts of his native Texas.
“San Antonio’s music scene is a little all over the place. It feels like we’re in the shadows of Austin, a high-caliber music scene,” Capps says. “But the art scene is tight-knit here, and because of my involvement with live music, I’ve gotten to know restaurateurs and visual artists and people who aren’t just musicians. That’s how the NASA Country band came together. We didn’t get together to go on tour; I organized the band to record the album.”
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As someone who listened to Kraftwerk before they made it big (?) because I knew a bunch of Army brats who had brought back Autobahn before it got any radio airplay here, this is intriguing. Will look them up and listen later.
Interesting! Enjoyed it this AM at start of shift. Could polka to it for sure.
Later.
This is new? It’s a melding of something or other? The only notable thing I heard was the most asininely long pointless intro I’ve ever heard (Berry Gordy would have beat this guys ass for it). The music itself and the stupid leftist pandering could have dropped anytime between 1970 and now. Frankly there is to my ear a Bob Dylan vibe all over the thing.
Bkmk
That type of viaual and audible assault is bad on the body and soul, which is never country
The noisemakers just call it country.
Mexican conjunto music, also known as conjunto tejano, was born in south Texas at the end of the 19th century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.—Wikipedia
Garrett T. Capps - Born In San Antone
Garrett T. Capps - Gettin' Better (Radio Edit
I guess it has has some hooks to it. Kind of a cross between alternative & country.
I like the last two, but not as crazy about the People Are Beautiful song.
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Two bands I very much like
I’m a huge Doug Sahm fan
I like the music but the lyrics are typical bullshit where does Texas come up with these liberal hippies that’s always been a problem since the 70s even my own days at hippie Hollow
I grew up in Mississippi and all the freaks like myself went to San Francisco or Austin and a few to New York City like me it’s always been a problem but the truth is Austin was much more manageable back there than it is now it was hippies back then but hippies were different then today’s woke totally inflexible progressive we were a nuisance but we were still rednecks at heart
Oh my friend who went to Austin who I visited quite a bit in the 70s and 80s Arnel conservative and they live rural around Houston the same as conservatives do around Nashville or any other liberal city even probably Portland and Boulder and Eugene it’s just how it is and it sucks but I do find this music arrangement interesting and I really did like Doug Sahm
RIP
Well, please stop sending them ti CA, uneasy rider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaYO3BkJzw
Sir Douglas Quintet - “Mendocino” - 25 January 1969, Playboy After Dark
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